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Role of Growth and Inequality in Explaining Changes in Poverty in Pakistan

Anwar, Talat - In: The Pakistan Development Review 49 (2010) 1, pp. 1-17

Changes in the extent of poverty are affected not only by growth in the mean income but also by changes in the … distribution of income. The effect of these two factors can be separately measured by decomposing the total change in poverty. In … the adverse effects of growth on poverty during the first period, 1998-99 to 2001-02. Alternatively, the role of growth …

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Accounting for the effect of health on cross-state income inequality in India

Sperling, Lena Lindbjerg; Kjøller-Hansen, Anders Oskar - In: Economics Letters 115 (2012) 2, pp. 252-255

We perform development accounting in accordance with Weil (2005, 2007) in a cross-state analysis of India. Results of similar magnitude are found, demonstrating that health can account for 1% to 18% of income differences depending on the health measure.

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The absence of deprivation as a measure of social well-being: An empirical investigation

Magdalou, Brice; Moyes, Patrick - In: Economics Letters 116 (2012) 1, pp. 75-79

The generalised Lorenz criterion is widely used for making welfare comparisons within and across countries on the basis of their income distributions. Experimental studies have challenged this way of proceeding by showing that the principle of transfers, which underlies the generalised Lorenz...

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On Measuring Inclusiveness of Growth in Pakistan

Asghar, Saima; Javed, Sajid Amin - In: The Pakistan Development Review 50 (2011) 4, pp. 879-894

Using social opportunity function approach, this work assesses, firstly, the change in and access to education and employment opportunities available to the population and secondly, how equitably these opportunities are distributed. Opportunity Index (OI) and Equity Index of Opportunities (EIO)...

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Is income inequality persistent? Evidence using panel stationarity tests, 1870–2011

Islam, Md. Rabiul; Madsen, Jakob B. - In: Economics Letters 127 (2015) C, pp. 17-19

Using data on inequality for 21 OECD countries over the period 1870–2011 this paper tests the Piketty hypothesis that income inequality is likely to grow in the 21st century. It is shown that the null hypothesis of trend stationarity of inequality cannot be rejected at conventional...

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Poverty Consequences of Globalisation in OIC Countries: A Comparative Analysis

Majeed, M. Tariq - In: The Pakistan Development Review 51 (2012) 4, pp. 479-492

This study examines the impact of globalisation on cross-country poverty using a new comparable panel data set for … effects on poverty in all sample developing countries while FDI helps in reducing poverty only in OIC countries. Second …, growth elasticity of poverty is negative and significant in all countries; however, the growth elasticity of poverty is high …

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Estimating the value and distributional effects of free state schooling

Andreou, Sofia N.; Koutsampelas, Christos; Pashardes, Panos - In: Economics Letters 125 (2014) 2, pp. 303-305

and anti-poverty effects of state education are illustrated. …

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